searching for my compass

Fox News called about an hour ago to ask for an interview after catching wind of the Spokesman-Review article. I rejected the interview on the (familiar) grounds that however I write up my experiences, Fox will distort the story for their own purposes.

As I rationalized this to self, a friend based in Achrafieh (Beirut) leveled a charge at me that essentially I may have committed a similar crime of representation in my evacuation narrative.

So I'm not going to delete this narrative from the blog (see 1 of 100,000) but rather rewrite it in ways that don't shove anyone into a cookiecutter. The last thing on earth that I want to do, or intend to do, is to reinforce prejudices and assumptions.

And even though this blog is a public reckoning of self, I hope it's not all about me.